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Not sure where to put this, but what does the BCC mean to you on the email?
The situation: I attended a program recently where I was apart of a group. I was however the only one who was not from the same institution where the program was held. We all met together several times so everyone there knew I was not from their institution. I felt slightly uncomfortable by the way the program leaders acted towards me. A few of the minor examples, when giving instructions to the group the program leader specifically named "XXX institution participants you need to do xy thing......etc", if we were to do something she always seemed to be speaking directly to only the people from her institution. I basically just assumed that I was to do what ever the other people were doing, but she didn't try to be inclusive like " ok everyone this is what you need to do".
Back to the email etiquette, when she emailed instructions or program materials everyone except me was listed in the TO, I was the only one listed in the BCC.
These are very minor examples of things that made me uncomfortable, I was singled out in other more obvious uncomfortable situations, but I just want to know what people think about this because I have to complete an evaluation about the program and I want to see if I should even list this as an example of what I did not enjoy about the program.
The purpose of BCC is that any addresses entered there will not be seen by others getting the email, so people getting the mail won't also get your email address along with it, it's a privacy thing. I think your question has more to do with motive and why the person did what they did, that we can't tell you.
Back to the email etiquette, when she emailed instructions or program materials everyone except me was listed in the TO, I was the only one listed in the BCC.
Just so you don't feel as singled out, there could have been other BCC recipients, but only the sender would be able to see them listed.
Just so you don't feel as singled out, there could have been other BCC recipients, but only the sender would be able to see them listed.
Exactly. Anyone who was on the BCC list would see only his or her name on the BCC, and everyone's on the regular TO list. Plus, this allowed people from the institution to "reply all" to follow up on the email.
Maybe also, they put you on the BCC as you were from a different institution and all the people that were from the same institution can already find everyones email address in the Global Address List off of thier Exchange Server.
One of the things that I use BCC for is copying my boss on something without the email receipient knowing. Sometimes she needs to be in the loop but I don't want the email receiver to think I am "telling" on them or something.
One of the things that I use BCC for is copying my boss on something without the email receipient knowing. Sometimes she needs to be in the loop but I don't want the email receiver to think I am "telling" on them or something.
This I also use BCC for archival purposes. Some accounts setup on my mail server automatically BCC to another account. One is so my phone gets important messages and another is so there is an archival copy of the status emails going somewhere.
In your case it could be a privacy thing. You are not part of their organization so she is treating your email differently, protecting it. Then again from the first part of your email she could be excluding you (they won't see that you also got the email and you won't see any reply alls that they make) so everyone else things she is only paying attention to them.
BCC is not worth much these days since so many email providers seem to automatically redirect BCC emails to JUNK/SPAM folders.
I wouldn't make that leap. There have been several good examples of why bcc is useful given in this thread. Read them over. It is no longer cool to let a large distribution of strangers see each others e-mail addresses in a mass mailing.
More often than not, I have seen BCC as a CYA thing like bs13690 says and I have seen it sorely backfire when the person who was on the BCC line hits "reply all" and the unknowing person on the "to" line finds out someone else was copied.
If I need to share a sensitive email and I don't want the person on the "to" line to know then I will forward that email instead of BCC so that a reply all does not create problems.
THough I don't ever forward anything that could be construed in any way as sensitive that was written by someone else without asking the author. Have seen that one backfire on people too.
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